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\name{swiss}
\title{Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators (1888) Data}
\usage{data(swiss)}
\alias{swiss}
\description{
  Standardized fertility measure and socio-economic indicators for each
  of 47 French-speaking provinces of Switzerland at about 1888.

}
\format{A data frame with 47 observations on 6 variables, \emph{each} of
  which is in percent, i.e., in \eqn{[0,100]}.

  \tabular{rll}{
    [,1] \tab Fertility \tab \eqn{I_g}{Ig}, ``common standardized
    fertility measure''\cr
    [,2] \tab Agriculture\tab \% involved in agriculture as occupation\cr
    [,3] \tab Examination\tab \% ``draftees'' receiving highest mark
    on army examination\cr
    [,4] \tab Education \tab \% education beyond primary school.\cr
    [,5] \tab Catholic \tab \% catholic (as opposed to ``protestant'').\cr
    [,6] \tab Infant.Mortality\tab live births who live less than 1
    year.
  }

  All variables but `Fertility' give proportions of the population.
}
\details{
  (paraphrasing Mosteller and Tukey):

  Switzerland, in 1888, was entering a period known as the ``demographic
  transition''; i.e., its fertility was beginning to fall from the high
  level typical of underdeveloped countries.

  The data collected are for 47 seven French-speaking ``provinces'' at
  about 1888.

  Here, all variables are scaled to \eqn{[0,100]}, where in the
  original, all but \code{"Catholic"} were scaled to \eqn{[0,1]}.
}
\source{
  Project ``16P5'', pages 549--551 in

  Mosteller, F. and Tukey, J. W. (1977).
  \emph{Data Analysis and Regression: A Second Course in Statistics},
  Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass.

  indicating their source as
  ``Data used by permission of Franice van de Walle. Office of
  Population Research, Princeton University, 1976.  Unpublished data
  assembled under NICHD contract number No 1-HD-O-2077.''
}
\examples{
data(swiss)
pairs(swiss, panel = panel.smooth, main = "swiss data")
summary(lm(Fertility ~ . , data = swiss))
}
\keyword{datasets}